Facebook Pages Now on Torrent
Engadget reports that the pages of over 100 million Facebook users (that’s about 1 out of 5) have been indexed and grouped into a giant 2.8GB file, available now for download (via torrent). Information includes the URL page, phone numbers, and email addresses.
Before everyone runs to a panic, however, all this information was public already. It’s information that anyone can access simply by surfing around Facebook and looking up one’s page. In fact, this was to serve as a reminder to users in being conscious of the information they share on social networks. If you haven’t already, be sure to check your privacy settings to limit how public your profile is (it’s defaulted to the entire internet, but can be limited to your friends, friends of friends, etc.).
Check out a our post on Facebook privacy for more info as well as info on how to change you settings.
[Engadget]
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